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Morning all Been away for a while but seeing the story of the whole street that booked it, packed it and f.. well flew away on it (far better strap line than the Redknapps), I thought I would have a little dabble back into the world of blogging. In case you have missed the coverage viral or otherwise...
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Filed under: travel, oakes, holidaytaxis.com, school, ABTA, mcewan, Hays, agents, airlines, airports, holidays, COOP, business, overseas, reps, flights, high street
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Last week I went to see the team at Jet2.com and Jet2holidays. We had a great catch up and I saw the operations team in action working the ongoing volcanic ash bookings as well as their day jobs! On return to my car – I put in my ticket – knowing the high cost of airport parking – which...
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I sometimes forget we live on and island. You mention the word island and it conjures up long sandy beaches, palm trees and clear blue sea but we do live on one and albeit a bit colder sometimes. The narrow stretch of water called the English Channel has kept hordes of invaders away during two World...
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23 Apr 2010
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Filed under: oakes, holidaytaxis.com, taxis, scotland, agents, home workers, chris, airport, spain, Thomas Cook, manchester airport, Ryanair, COOP, reps, TUI, evacuation, volcano
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I of course am an advocate of anyone taking the opportunity to work in travel as I have done both in the UK and overseas for over 22 years. Last week I had a great opportunity of working with some of the staff from Worcester College of Technology who have a travel implant agency Spires Travel in the...
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Like all businesses today’s global challenges require the North Pole to continue to look for better, more competitive steps. Effective immediately, the following economy measures are to take place in the “Twelve Days of Christmas” subsidiary: 1. The partridge will be retained, but the...
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Apologies as it has been some weeks since my last blog. Since the Travel Convention I have managed to squeeze in a family holiday at last to sunny Tenerife. Travel is amazing as I have still have some friends over there Roberto and Karina that I worked with and Adi and Ruth and even though it has been...
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Taken from this weeks Sunday times another classic Ryanair act of diplomacy....... IT’S SCRATCHCARDS AT DAWN The chief executive of the no-frills airline Germanwings has sparked a furious row with Ryanair by predicting that the Irish giant would go out of business. “The Ryanair model is coming...
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Ok so just back from the much anticipated Faro FAM Trip jointly hosted by Avro, Cosmos, Holidaytaxis.com and of course our country hosts the Portuguese National Tourist Board – so was it a success? From our point of view every agent was excellent...
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Hi It’s been a few weeks and I have been travelling far and wide up and down the UK and Ireland. This for a lot of us is conference season and over the next few months I am away to Faro with 45 luck agents courtesy of HTX, PNTO and Cosmos so watch this space for the photos! In October Barcelona...
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9 Sep 2009
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Filed under: travel, oakes, cosmos, taxis, Hays, agents, taxi, chris, airport, Fam Trip, Faro
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Ok – so we all here about rip off Britain. Latest culprit Manchester Airport!! I have just booked flights with an airline and had to pay £60 quid for bags – I know it’s a rip off, however you know they are going to charge you. Yesterday morning going through security at Manchester...
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Thought I would lighten the mood this week – been a hard week again! These are questions and genuine answers from an Australian Tourism website – I know about the Aussies and the Ashes – but these are classic – enjoy!! Q: Does it ever get windy in Australia ? I have never seen...
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I have just returned from a week at the Holiday Village in Benalmadena. I booked my package through an agent – however opted not to take their transfer and used one of our private transfers. In these days of incremental income agents are getting savvier and by offering services such as these greatly...
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Off on my holidays – and yes booked with a travel agent – after 21 years in travel I still have a huge loyalty and being a family man (not married but been dating 17 years) I have to go up an aisle one day – and that is of course and aircraft! I have booked private transfers with my...
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2 Jul 2009
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I fly out to Malaga next week for a quick break in the sun. The Costa del Sol still holds some great memories from me in my repping days; however this is still one of the classics that was a true story of a young couple’s first trip to the coast. A guy and his girlfriend man were driving their...
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I have just came back from a couple of days back up in Scotland and visiting some of our agents up there and visiting towns that in fairness I hadn’t been to before – so it was quite an experience. At Holidaytaxis.com we have fantastic support from the trade and it was great to touch base...